NEW YORK (CNNfn) - U.S. stocks gave back earlier gains Monday afternoon after the U.S. launched a second retaliatory attack on targets in Afghanistan.
A new round of strikes got under way, one day after the U.S. and Britain launched strikes against terrorist suspect Osama bin Laden's network of military camps.
For investors, the retaliation to the Sept. 11 terrorist attack raises questions about the ability to win such a war and whether reprisals are coming, further disrupting an already weak economy.
At 12:25 p.m. ET, the Nasdaq composite index fell 1.96 points to 1,603.12 while the Dow Jones industrial average shed 36.19 to 9,084.06. The Standard & Poor's 500 index slid 8.16 to 1,063.63. 
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